Collection of Augustus Hare Papers and Drawing, 1854-1909.

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Collection of Augustus Hare Papers and Drawing, 1854-1909.

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Correspondence, manuscripts, and drawings of Hare and his family. His letters concern the writing and publishing of his books and his many social relationships. There are the autograph manuscripts of the announcement of his book "Shropshire" and of his autobiographical essay "The Hare with Many Friends", as well as five original pencil and wash drawings of buildings in France, Germany, and Switzerland used as illustrations in his popular travel books. There are also several devotional manuscripts by other members of the Hare family.

86 items (1 box and 5 oversize items).

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6729766

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834-1903

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Augustus J.C. Hare was born in Rome, privately educated before going to Oxford, and lived most of his life abroad before retiring to England. He wrote books about places, guidebooks to cities and important places in England and Italy, and a memoir, Memories of a quiet life (1872-76). He was a gifted artist who illustrated many of his own books, a book and picture collector, and a fashionable man-about-town. From the description of Augustus J.C. Hare letter to Mrs. Portal, 1896 June 1...

Schimmel, Stuart B.

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Augustus John Cuthbert Hare, 1824-1903, artist and author of many travel books and memoirs. From the description of Collection of Augustus Hare Papers and Drawing, 1854-1909. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122482548 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1841-1935 was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 until 1935. His father, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., 1809-1894, essayist, poet, and physician, is also represented i...